Chutzpod!

By Chutzpod!Religion & Spirituality Judaism

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Chutzpod! episodes

September 11, 2024 Practical Rabbinics
Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a new rabbi navigate her first high holiday season – what she calls “her Oscars and big debut.” What do rabbis wish you knew about services, why does Rabbi Shira hate when people only attend on Yom Kippur, and, gasp, what should a rabbi wear?!
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Read the Talmud story about being flexible like a reed.
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41 min
September 04, 2024 Dogs on a Plane
Dogs on a plane are kosher, but are they annoying? Rabbi Shira and Hanna kick off a new season and Elul with a Rosh Hashanah LaBehemot celebration. What are the Jewish ethics around animals? Is the Torah ableist? Bring your apples, honey, and dog biscuits and tune in.
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Read more about Rosh Hahanah LaBehemah
Learn about ableism in the Torah
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35 min
August 21, 2024 Coming Soon: Chutzpod Season 4
This season on Chutzpod! Rabbi Shira Stutman and Hanna Rosin dive into all things high holidays. How do you really start over in the new year. How can you forgive others if you can't forgive yourself on Yom Kippur. And what should we think about snakes (and dogs) on a plane?
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2 min
June 12, 2024 Celebrating the (Sometimes Racist, Sexist and Homophobic) Torah
Rabbi Shira and Hanna close out Season 3 with by celebrating Shavuot*, which commemorates the receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. But how do you celebrate a sacred text that's often problematic?
*This year Shavuot at sundown on Tuesday June 11, 2024, and concludes at nightfall on Thursday, June 13.
Story of Dinah
Torah Portion Nasso
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36 min
June 05, 2024 Racism or Antisemitism? One Couple's Quandry
A listener in an interfaith and interracial relationship asks for advice on how to navigate conversations about antisemitism, race and Israel. Rabbi Shira and Hanna are joined by antiracist educator Rachel Faulkner from the National Council of Jewish Women.
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31 min
May 29, 2024 Friendship FOMO
Do you suffer from Friendship FOMO? Heartburn, fatigue, painful stabs of jealousy while looking at Instagram? Rabbi Shira and Hanna will provide some relief. Podcast host and producer Lauren Ober writes in. And Shira lets out her inner mean girl.
Biblical Moments of Jealousy: Exodus 20.5, Joseph & his brothers
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42 min
May 22, 2024 We Hear You
Rabbi Shira and Hanna fire through a bunch of your letters and voice memos. Shira imagines having an audience with the Pope. Hanna reimagines her concept of Jewish power. And, yet another plug for the mikvah.
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31 min
May 15, 2024 An IVF Mitzvah
Rabbi Shira and Hanna help a couple navigate the decision to donate their embryos. They’d like to give the gift to a Jewish family. They’d like to maintain close contact. Are mitzvahs still mitzvahs if you have an ulterior motive?
More on Judaism & Fertility
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29 min
May 08, 2024 Spoiled Rotten
What to do when you want to teach your children gratitude, humility and the value of a dollar, but your mother’s “greatest joy in life” is spoiling them rotten. Rabbi Shira and Hanna talk about money myths, values and honoring thy father and mother.
The Torah on Money
Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Kiddushin 31b
Rav Asi had an elderly mother. She said to him: “I want jewelry.” He made jewelry for her. “I want a man,” and he said: I will seek one for you. “I want a husband who is as handsome as you.” He left her…and went to Israel.
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33 min
April 17, 2024 Israel and this Year's Seder
Israel is destined to be top of mind during Passover this year. Rabbi Shira and Hanna give advice on how to have a meaningful (and less contentious) seder.
Priya Parker on the “Art of Gathering”
Why do you spill the wine?
On the interplay between Purim and Passover
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38 min

About Chutzpod!

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Chutzpod! is a frank and wide-ranging conversation on how to build a good life, using real-life quandaries and millennia-old Jewish wisdom. Each week, Rabbi Shira Stutman and journalist Hanna Rosin…